Ενημέρωση για το Columbia Urban Design Program
Dear Friends of the Columbia University Urban Design Program,
As you may know, Columbia offers an intensive post-professional Urban Design Program for young architects, landscape architects and others involved with shaping cities and regions. The program is advancing new paradigms of research, practice and pedagogy to meet the challenges of rapid urbanization, the increasing threats of climate change, and societal inequity. Students and faculty work together over a series of three intensive semesters to weave a multi-scalar analysis of urban fabrics and infrastructures with an on-the ground, detailed look at sites and lived conditions. The importance of urban design lies at the intersection of these two spheres, combining larger systems strategies and built form with interventions that integrate culturally with human scale spaces.
We seek a broad range of students from diverse geographic locations and educational backgrounds to contribute to this robust dialogue. Please share this link to our bulletin with your colleagues, students and friends who may be interested in attending the program as a Student or Visiting Scholar. The Application deadline is January 15th.
In other news, on October 16th, Columbia UD hosted a major symposium on Urban Storytelling. Together with the University's Digital Storytelling Lab, students and participants discussed and prototyped tools and forms of visualization to rethink community engagement and communication in design. The afternoon event included voices from our own faculty, alumni and students, and invited guests from the film, arts, television, and gaming worlds.
I am also pleased to announce that David Smiley, RA, PhD has joined the program in the capacity of Assistant Director. His published work and lively seminars on cities, suburbs and forms in-between will greatly contribute to a substantive discussion on the complexities of urban fabrics and resilient landscapes. Associate Professor Laura Kurgan, renowned for her work on the ethics and politics of mapping, new structures of participation in design and the visualization of global data, also joins the Spring studio as an instructor.
This is an exciting time at Columbia GSAPP. You can keep track of what's going via Twitter @ColumbiaUD. Please come and visit us soon.
best regards from New York City,
Kate Orff
Associate Professor
Director, MSAUD Program
Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
